1918

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The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

Wilfred Owen

Dulce et Decorum Est

A Latin phrase, originally from Horace's Odes, meaning "it is sweet and fitting to die for the homeland."

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Topic

Dying for one's country Self-sacrifice Patriotism War

Author

Wilfred Owen

Source

Dulce et Decorum Est

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1918 1910s 20th century

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Original Citation

Owen, Wilfred. "Dulce et Decorum Est." Poems by Wilfred Owen. Chatto & Windus, 1920.

Current Citation

Owen, Wilfred. "Dulce et Decorum Est." The War Poems Of Wilfred Owen. Random House UK, 2018.

Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, while there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

Eugene Debs

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Underdogs Outsiders and outcasts

Author

Eugene Debs

Medium

Courtroom speech Speech

Language

English

Time

1918 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Federal Court. US v. Eugene V. Debs. RG 21, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio, Criminal Case Files, 1912–1977, Criminal Case #4057. 9. NYT, 18 Sept. 1918.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought, and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Towne v. Eisner

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Meaning of words Words

Author

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Source

Towne v. Eisner

Medium

Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1918 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. United States, Supreme Court. Towne v. Eisner. United States Reports, vol. 245, 7 Jan. 1918, pp. 418-427. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/245/418/.

Revolution do not stand still.

Rosa Luxemburg

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Topic

The only constant is change Revolution Political progress Politics

Author

Rosa Luxemburg

Source

The Beginning The Red Flag

Language

German

Time

1918 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Luxemburg, Rosa. "The Beginning." Die Rote Fahne [The Red Flag], 18 Nov. 1918.

Current Citation

Luxemburg, Rosa. "The Beginning." The Rosa Luxemburg Reader. New York University Press, 2004.

There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.

Willa Cather

My Antonia

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American frontier America

Author

Willa Cather

Source

My Antonia

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1918 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Cather, Willa, My Ántonia. Houghton Mifflin, 1918, bk. 1, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Cather, Willa. My Ántonia. W. W. Norton & Co., 2015, bk. 1, ch. 1.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Willa Cather

My Antonia

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Winter Seasons

Author

Willa Cather

Source

My Antonia

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1918 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Cather, Willa. My Antonia. Houghton Mifflin, 1918, bk. 2, ch. 7.

Current Citation

Cather, Willa. My Ántonia. W. W. Norton & Co., 2015, bk. 2, ch. 7.

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.

Willa Cather

My Antonia

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Topic

Happiness Contentment

Author

Willa Cather

Source

My Antonia

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1918 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Cather, Willa. My Ántonia. Houghton Mifflin, 1918, bk. 1, ch. 2.

Current Citation

Cather, Willa. My Ántonia. W. W. Norton & Co., 2015, bk. 1, ch. 2.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

George Bernard Shaw

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Topic

Intellectual history

Speaker

The Grand Duchess

Author

George Bernard Shaw

Source

Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1918 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress. 21 Jan. 1918, Coliseum Theatre, London, England, UK.

Current Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. "Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress." Selected Short Plays, edited by Dan H. Laurence. Penguin, 1988.

A general association of nations must be formed... For the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.

Woodrow Wilson

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Topic

International politics

Speaker

Woodrow Wilson

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1918 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Wilson, Woodrow. "The Fourteen Points." Congress meeting. 8 Jan. 1918, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA. Address.

Current Citation

Wilson, Woodrow. "The Fourteen Points." Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-President, edited by Mario R. DiNunzio. NYU Press, 2006.

The power of the press is very great, but not so great as the power of suppress.

Alfred Harmsworth

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Topic

Suppression of speech Media

Author

Alfred Harmsworth

Source

Daily Mail

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1918 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Harmsworth, Alfred. Daily Mail. c. 1918.

Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work-
I am the grass; I cover all.

Carl Sandburg

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Topic

Casualties of war War

Author

Carl Sandburg

Source

Grass

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1918 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Sandburg, Carl. "Grass." Cornhuskers. Henry Holt and Company, 1918, I. 1.

Current Citation

Sandburg, Carl. "Grass." The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003, I. 1.

If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.

Jean Cocteau

Barabbas was the criminal released by Pontius Pilate , at the crowd's insistence, instead of Jesus.

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Topic

The mob The masses

Author

Jean Cocteau

Source

The Cock and the Harlequin

Medium

Essay

Language

French

Time

1918 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Cocteau, Jean. Le Coq et l'Arlequin [The Cock and the Harlequin]. Paris: Editions de la Sirene, 1918.

Every position must be held to the last man: there must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight on to the end.

Douglas Haig

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Topic

World War I No surrender War

Author

Douglas Haig

Source

Special Order of the Day

Language

English

Time

1918 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 0

Citation

Haig, Douglas. "Special Order of the Day." 11 Apr. 1918, Great Britain, UK.

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian-ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

Lytton Strachey

Eminent Victorians

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Nature of history

Author

Lytton Strachey

Source

Eminent Victorians

Genre

Biography

Language

English

Time

1918 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Strachey, Lytton. Eminent Vicorians. Chatto & Windus, 1918, preface.

Current Citation

Strachey, Lytton. Eminent Vicorians. Penguin Classics, 1990, preface.

Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.

Willa Cather

My Antonia

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Shared history

Author

Willa Cather

Source

My Antonia

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Closing lines

Language

English

Time

1918 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Cather, Willa. My Antonia. Houghton Mifflin, 1918, bk. 5, ch. 3.

Current Citation

Cather, Willa. My Ántonia. W. W. Norton & Co., 2015, bk. 5, ch. 3.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

Theodore Roosevelt

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American Presidency American politics

Author

Theodore Roosevelt

Source

Kansas City Star

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1918 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. Kansas City Star. 7 May 1918.

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.

Eugene Victor Debs

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Topic

The vanguard Political progress Progress

Speaker

Eugene Victor Debs

Source

US v. Eugene V. Debs

Medium

Courtroom speech Speech

Language

English

Time

1918 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Federal Court. US v. Eugene V. Debs. RG 21, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio, Criminal Case Files, 1912–1977, Criminal Case #4057. 9. NYT, 10 Sept. 1918.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

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Topic

Political theory Politics and lies Politics

Author

H.L. Mencken

Source

In Defense of Women

Genre

Feminist literature

Language

English

Time

1918 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Mencken, HL. "Women as Outlaws." A Mencken Chrestomathy. Alfred A. Knopf, 1949, ch. 3. Originally published In Defense of Women. Philip Goodman, 1918, ch. 2, sec. 13.

What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wilderness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Topic

Wilderness Nature Environmental destruction

Author

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Source

Inversnaid

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1918 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Hopkins, Gerard Manley. "Inversnaid." Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Humphrey Milford, 1918, I. 13.

Current Citation

Hopkins, Gerard Manley. "Inversnaid." Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works, edited by Catherine Phillips. Oxford University Press, 2009.

At eleven o'clock this morning came to an end the cruelest and most terrible war that has ever scourged mankind. I hope we may say thus, this fateful morning, came to an end all wars.

David Lloyd George

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Topic

World War I

Speaker

David Lloyd George

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Statement Type

Bad predictions Prophecies and predictions

Language

English

Time

1918 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

George, David Lloyd. Address about the signing of an armistice. House of Commons. 11 Nov. 1918, The Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.